A Study on How to Improve High School Students’ Listening Skills.doc

PAGE  PAGE iii A Study on How to Improve High School Students’ Listening Skills 摘 要 听力是英语学习中的一项基本技能。然而，在“听说读写”四项基本技能中，听力技巧通常被认为是最难获得的。本文主要分析了影响我国高中生听力能力的各方面因素，并分别从学生和教师的角度给出相应的解决方法，以帮助高中生消除听力理解障碍,提高听力水平。 关键词：听力理解；影响因素；改进策略 ABSTRACT Listening is one of the essential skills in the learning of English. However, among the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), it is often considered to be the most difficult one to acquire. This paper mainly analyzes the comprehensive factors that affect Chinese high school students’ English listening ability, and provides relevant solutions to help the students to remove the listening comprehension obstacles and raise listening level respectively from the students’ perspective and the teachers’ perspective. Key words: listening comprehension, influencial factors, improving strategies CONTENTS Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1 1. The current situation of high school students’ English listening…………………………2 1.1 Analysis of the statistics of the questionnaire……………………………………………………………2 1.1.1 The current problems in English listening………………………………………………………2 1.1.2 The students’ ideal tactics of improving their listening ability………………………3 1.2 Reasons of such a situation…………………………………………………………………………………………3 2. Factors affecting high school students’ English listening comprehension…………4 2.1 Linguistic obstacles………………………………………………………………………………………………………42.1.1 Obstacles on phonetics and phonology……………………………………………………………4 2.1.2 Obstacles on lexicology……………………………………………………………………………………6 2.1.3 Obstacles on grammar………………………………………………………………………………………7 2.1.4 Obstacles on context…………………………………………………………………………………………8 2.2. Non-linguistic obstacles………………………………………………………………………………………………9 2.2.1 Obstacles on cultural background knowledge…………………………………………………9 2.2.2 Obstacles on psychology…………………………………………………………………………………10 2.2.3 Obstacles on bad listening habits……………………………………………………………………112.2.4 Obstacles on tempo…………………………………………………